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RDD's avatar
RDD
Guide
Dec 23, 2016
Solved

Weird USB behaviour

Hardware: RN204 @ 6.6.0 with 3 WD 4 TB Red and 1 Samsung 1.5 TB   Sabrent 2 bay USB 3 docking station Toshiba 3 TB WD 4TB Red   2 brand new Segate ST4000DM000 4 TB   I have been using the WD...
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  • RDD's avatar
    RDD
    Jan 07, 2017

    Bought an inateck FD2102 USB3 Dual Docking Station from Amazon.  It had absolutely no problem bringing up the two Seagate 4 TB drives. Have been backing up from RN204 to it for five days now. Working great.

     

    So since Sabrent does not support USB to anything but Windows or Mac, then the solution must be to not use Sabrent. Or Seagate?

     

    I had thought that since the interface was USB that the operating system would be irrelivant.

     

    I do see that the inateck box says "Support OS:  Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 (32,64 bit), Mac".  So, offically, it does not support Win 10 or Linux.  But it had no problem formating the drives to EXT4 on the RN204.

     

    I bought my first PC in 1982.  After 35 years I should be used to doing this stuff by trial and error.

FramerV's avatar
FramerV
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Dec 29, 2016

Hi RDD,

 

I am very sorry to hear that. Please let me know if you have further questions.

 

 

Regards,

RDD's avatar
RDD
Guide
Jan 07, 2017

Bought an inateck FD2102 USB3 Dual Docking Station from Amazon.  It had absolutely no problem bringing up the two Seagate 4 TB drives. Have been backing up from RN204 to it for five days now. Working great.

 

So since Sabrent does not support USB to anything but Windows or Mac, then the solution must be to not use Sabrent. Or Seagate?

 

I had thought that since the interface was USB that the operating system would be irrelivant.

 

I do see that the inateck box says "Support OS:  Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 (32,64 bit), Mac".  So, offically, it does not support Win 10 or Linux.  But it had no problem formating the drives to EXT4 on the RN204.

 

I bought my first PC in 1982.  After 35 years I should be used to doing this stuff by trial and error.

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